Angela D

So much help is required following a cancer diagnosis. The help of our doctors, our nurses, our families, our friends. So often the fight goes on and on. People have their own lives. It is difficult to always “be there” Continue…

Cancer has taken my happiness away and replaced it with pain and sorrow. I have never been a fighter and now I am in the fight of my life. It makes me sad that all my efforts go toward a war within my body. It makes me sad that I am not who I was, nor will I ever be. It makes me sad that my hair has never grown back. It makes me sad that I am 80 pounds soaking wet. It makes me sad to get treatments that are really just a ‘try and see.’ A cure would make me happy. To be healthy again would make me happy. I took my good health for granted. Nobody should. It is a gift and once it is gone….well, tell me about being happy then.

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This is a place where anyone who counts themselves as a member of the Mass General Cancer Center community --- patient, family member, physician, nurse, researcher, social worker, care giver, administrator --- can come to read, think, and write about the words we all use, but which we don’t always understand in the same way. Often we use words and phrases that are common, that we use every day. Yet, their very familiarity creates the illusion of common understanding where, the fact is, we are frequently using these words in radically different ways, with radically different meanings. In our small way, WWTA is meant to help us work toward a common language and make the conversations we have about cancer more meaningful.

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